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Review: Cool KUNDO: AGE OF THE RAMPANT Has Some Swagger In Its Step

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Review: Cool KUNDO: AGE OF THE RAMPANT Has Some Swagger In Its Step

Review: Cool KUNDO: AGE OF THE RAMPANT Has Some Swagger In Its Step

Posted: 29 Jul 2014 04:30 AM PDT

With big stars and a hefty budget, Kundo: Age Of The Rampant marches into theaters with confidence and tongue planted firmly in cheek. This hybrid period film owes more to spaghetti westerns than the history of its Joseon Era setting and some may take umbrage at the film's excessive running time, but with a raucous charm and an array of well-mined genre tropes, it's sure to keep most spectators satisfied. A group of Robin Hood-like bandits called Kundo roam the land, taking from the corrupt rich and giving back to the embattled poor. Dol Moo-chi, a lowly butcher, finds himself embroiled in an assassination plot hatched by the young prince Jo Yoon, what wants to put himself next in line for the throne. When he...

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PiFan 2014 Review: ZOMBIE FIGHT CLUB Loves Shooting Ass Way More Than Kicking It

Posted: 29 Jul 2014 02:50 AM PDT

Joe Chien's follow-up to the bafflingly tasteless and salacious Zombie 108 delivers a generous second helping of the same Z-grade trash and splatter. Andy On and Jessica C are the attractive, if helpless, leads who - eventually - find themselves in an apocalyptic underground arena of the undead after escaping an overrun apartment block. But as was the problem last time round, Chien reduces character and narrative to a procession of boobs, blood and depravity that suggests he long ago fell foul of the zombie hordes himself.Zombie 108 was one of those unforgettable viewing experiences. A seemingly simple story of zombies descending on a Taipei apartment block, it proved so consistently vile, exploitative, misogynistic and tasteless that you simply couldn't look away. With each new...

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PiFan 2014 Review: Silat Drama YASMINE Fights From The Heart

Posted: 28 Jul 2014 11:30 PM PDT

An earnest and heartfelt coming-of-age story hailing from the tiny South-East Asian sovereign state of Brunei, Siti Kamaluddin's debut feature has attracted widespread attention thanks to its spirited use of en vogue martial art silat. While Yasmine trades the visceral intensity of Gareth Evans' The Raid for teen angst and family tensions, there is still plenty of interest in this female-centric tournament drama.Good-natured teenager Yasmine (Liyana Yus) is devastated when she learns her father, Fahri (Reza Rahadian) has pulled her out of the local high school and enrolled her in a strict muslim establishment with harsh dress codes and a noticeable lack of extra-curricular activities. Concerned that his daughter his spending too much time hanging out with her friends and practicing silat, Fahri also brings...

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Fantasia 2014 Review: THE MIDNIGHT SWIM, Where Still Waters Run Deep

Posted: 28 Jul 2014 08:01 PM PDT

In Werner Herzog's wonderful documentary Encounters at the End of the World, he makes a point of showing that if you dive deep enough in those cold, antarctic waters, the experience is not all that different than voyaging into outer space. Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain also used microscopic images of bacteria in petri dishes as the special effects foundation for creating a dying nebulae on screen. I am continually fascinated with inner space and microscopic scale being as infinite as the far stretching galaxies.  Director Sarah Adina Smith, with her first feature, plays with both these ideas, but she does so with character and sibling drama as the driver for in her delicate psychodrama, The Midnight Swim. Introverted and damaged, twenty-something June Brooks makes a dive deep down into herself...

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New Poster And First Teaser For THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES

Posted: 28 Jul 2014 07:01 PM PDT

At long last it's here! The teaser trailer for The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies (that screened twice at the San Diego Comic-Con panel on Saturday) is now online.And even if you have watched it already, why not watch again with us.Ramp up the resolution, pump up the volume, and enjoy....

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Fantasia 2014: We've Seen Footage From SPRING, REDEEMER, WE ARE STILL HERE, TURBO KID, And More

Posted: 28 Jul 2014 01:00 PM PDT

For the first time since the Frontières International Co-Production Market began, we were treated to a taste of how some films that got their start on the market floor and other projects being made by friends of the festival were coming along. We saw teasers and clips from Turbo Kid, We Are Still Here, Some Kind of Hate, Why Horror?, June, Redeemer, and Spring. Some of these films are still locking down edits. Some are deep into post production. All of these are awesome projects. This is not a review, more so a summary of impressions about the footage that we saw. To cast any judgement on any of these teasers and clips would be unfair to the filmmakers and producers and likely result in me...

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First Images And Teaser From Fredrik Hana's AUTUMN HARVEST

Posted: 28 Jul 2014 12:30 PM PDT

We've been keeping an eye on Norway's Fredrik Hana in these parts for quite some time now. We first wrote about his work back in 2009 with his short film Transsexual Express and checked back in in 2011 with time travel oddity Allfader before moving on to last year's Fantastic Fest selection, the appropriately titled Angst, Piss And Shit, which features plenty of all of the above. As you may guess from the titles, Hana is a bit of a restless sort, continuously reinventing himself from project to project and he has done so again with his latest short - the handsomely shot in black and white and very much classically composed Autumn Harvest. But this is no agrarian tale, no, there's something much darker...

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Latest SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR Trailer, Black And White and Red All Over

Posted: 28 Jul 2014 11:30 AM PDT

Hmm. I must be getting old, because I'm not as excited by the latest trailer for Sin City: A Dame to Kill For as I should be. Maybe it's because the original Sin City raised my hopes so high, and then dashed them upon the rocks. And the sequel promises more of the same from Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller. much as we've already seen in the trailers so far. Nonetheless, an abiding curiosity will still drive me to see the movie when it opens on August 22. And makes me want to watch this trailer another few times, particularly those moments with Eva Green, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Powers Boothe, and Mickey Rourke, and Rosario Dawson ... oh, shoot, I'm hooked again....

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Fantasia 2014 Review: Can You Escape From THE DEVIL'S MILE?

Posted: 28 Jul 2014 11:01 AM PDT

The Canadian horror flick, The Devil's Mile, had its World Premiere at Fantasia Saturday night. It is the feature debut of long-time screenwriter and Rue Morgue magazine contributor Joseph O'Brien. Three kidnappers, Toby, Cally and Jackie, take a detour to deliver their hostages - two teenage girls - to their powerful employer, Mr. Arkadi. The trip is taking longer than they expected and a couple of complications with the kidnappings only escalate the frustrations everyone feels. Then one of the girls is killed during an escape attempt and an easy kidnapping job turns into a white-knuckled ride into horror and fear. Down The Devil's Mile. Joseph O'Brien's feature debut is an entertaining crime-horror with splashes of Lovecraftian and J-horror tropes. And while one may wonder how on...

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DEALER: WTFilms Take International Sales Rights On Eve Of World Premiere At Fantasia, Watch An Exclusive Clip Now

Posted: 28 Jul 2014 08:30 AM PDT

It was back in April that we first introduced readers to Jean Luc Herbulot and his stylish, low budget, French crime thriller Dealer and with the film set to have its world premiere today at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal international sales company WTFilms have announced that they are taking on the film to sell distribution rights around the world while also passing an exclusive clip our way. Read the full announcement below and find the clip below that! Paris, France - Multipass Prod is proud to announce the world premiere at Fantasia of DEALER, a crime thriller directed by Jean Luc Herbulot. The screening of this first feature film starring a new generation of French talent will take place in Montreal on July 29th,...

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Check The First Poster For Isaac Ezban's THE INCIDENT

Posted: 28 Jul 2014 07:30 AM PDT

The first international poster for Isaac Ezban's debut feature length film, The Incident (El Incidente), has arrived. It looks exactly like its Mexican version, which premiered some weeks ago when distribution company Cine Caníbal confirmed that they will release The Incident in Mexico. There is not a release date yet, but I really suggest staying tuned as this is among the best Mexican films of 2014. "Ezban's first film is a great display of how to make an intriguing film with not many elements. This first part in specific is proof of that, as it happens entirely in the staircase of a building, having only three actors interacting with each other. There's a solid concept behind everything, of course, but the filmmaking feels at times so...

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Review: Bleak And Gripping, HAEMOO Prizes Character Over Spectacle

Posted: 28 Jul 2014 06:08 AM PDT

At the request of Finecut, the film's international distributor, the title of the film has been changed to Haemoo. Sea Fog was a working title used up until this point. To date, the summer of 2014 has seen the majority of mainstream Korean films fall into either of two categories: the noir thriller or the period blockbuster. While a handful of terrific genre pieces, namely A Hard Day and Confession, have succeeded in spite of this inertia, it's been high time for something a little different. Along comes Haemoo, a character-driven blockbuster set on a boat that is based on a play which is itself drawn from a real life incident. A fishing trawler returns to port with a meager catch and when its captain...

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